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Yet Another Tool for Speech Extraction & Enrichment (YATSEE)

This project provides a modular pipeline for downloading, transcribing, cleaning, and preparing audio/video recordings into readable, structured text. It’s designed with a local-first philosophy, giving you full control over your data at every stage.

2025

factchecking-sites-scraper

One of Tattle's goals is to make stories fact-checking content circulated on chat apps and social media more accessible to mobile first users

India

Microsoft AirSim

The initiative was developed in partnership between the National Council of Justice (CNJ) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), with support from the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Superior Court of Justice (STJ), Superior Electoral Court (TSE), and Superior Council of Labor Justice (CSJT).

Redmond, WA
2017
Microsoft

CivicPress

Manifesto and launch of a new Open Source Civic Technology Platform

USA
2025

Council Data Project

Transparency and accessibility in council action; videos, transcripts, voting records, and legislation -- all searchable under a single website.

Seattle, WA, United States of America
https://pastecal.com/ActiveOpen-source

PasteCal

Shareable, no-login calendar

https://acter.global/ActiveOpen-source

Acter

A matrix-based mobile organizing app to organize your movement.

Matrix, apps
https://cofacts.g0v.tw/ActiveOpen-source

Cofacts

Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.

Taiwan
LINE
https://www.mudamos.org/ActiveOpen-source

Mudamos signature collection app

Empowers citizens to directly present bills. It uses blockchain technology to register citizens' support for the bill.

ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017